Noel Gallagher picked up Outstanding Song Collection Award award yesterday at the Ivor Novello Awards saying exactly why he thought the awards hold such a special place in the music industry.

It's a big week for ABBA. Not only has Agnetha Fältskog's new album, A, debut at number 6, but the group's album, Gold, has overtaken the Beatles to become the second biggest selling album in British music history.

Ken Whaley, who was a member of such English groups as Help Yourself, Ducks Deluxe and Man, died on May 8 after battling lung cancer. He was 66.

Stephen Stills, Barry Goldberg and Kenny Wayne Shepherd have formed the new group The Rides and will release their first album, Can't Get Enough, on August 27.

Bon Jovi will perform a second Melbourne show at Etihad Stadium on December 8.

Dave Grohl was The Rolling Stones special guest for the second Anaheim show on May 18. He performed ‘Bitch’ with the band.

Judith Durham remains in hospital and her condition “unchanged” says her manager Graham Simpson.

Pubjab rapper Honey Singh has been changed with obscenity and could face up to three months in prison.

30 Seconds To Mars singer Jared Leto will return to be big screen soon playing a transsexual in the movie ‘Dallas Buyers Club’.

Dave Grohl will be joining the Rolling Stones on stage tonight in Anaheim.

Bon Jovi have announced a one-off show in Sao Paulo, Brazil with Nickelback as their special guest opening act.

Tame Impala’s touring bass player Nick Allbrook has left the band.

‘At Last – The Etta James Story’ starring Vika Bull has become the surprise stage hit of 2013 in Australia and has been extended for Perth and Brisbane.

Cyndi Lauper will kick off her Australian tour with to shows now for Melbourne.

Michael Buble “To Be Loved” has remained for a fifth week at No.1 in Australia.  

Robin Thicke stays a second week at No.1 in Australia with T.I. and Pharrell on the now Platinum (▲) selling track “Blurred Lines”.

Denmark has won the Eurovision Song Contest for 2013.

R.I.P. Alan O’Day. The man who wrote the Righteous Brothers hit ‘Rock and Roll Heaven’, Helen Reddy’s ‘Angie Baby’ and had his own hits with ‘Undercover Angel’ and ‘Skinny Girls’ has passed away at the age of 72.

If you are on the streets of Sydney tonight and see a strange video on building, it is from Kanye West.

Country superstar Alan Jackson will return to Australia in September.

The Steve Waugh Foundation will host a gala concert in Sydney next week to raise money for families with a rare disease.

Todd Rundgren will perform two intimate shows at Melbourne’s iconic Bennetts Lane jazz venue on his forthcoming Australian tour.

George Michael was airlifted to a London hospital Thursday night after being involved in a car accident on the M1 in Hertfordshire.

The Bon Jovi Because We Can tour played in Vienna, Austria overnight (May 17).

The reason Beyonce cancelled her show in Belgium this week has become clearer. She is pregnant with her second child.

Bon Jovi fans in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are being treated to a special cruise package when the Because We Can tour comes to tour.

Cyndi Lauper has added a second Sydney show for her She’s So Unusual 30th anniversary tour.

Engelbert Humperdinck, last year’s entrant for Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest, has sent a note of support to Bonnie Tyler, who is representing the UK this year.

The ‘hiatus’, (that wonderful word bands use these days instead of breaking up) is over for Franz Ferdinand. They are back together and have a new album on the way.

Black Sabbath scored the ultimate product placement this week with a cameo appearance on the season finale of ‘C.S.I.’, along with a couple of featured songs from the new album ‘13’ and a blatant plug for the release of ‘13’. It was a brilliant marketing move.